MOUNT ATHOS
AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE MONASTERIES AND THEIR HISTORY
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Παρουσίαση
Athos is the easternmost of the three promontories of Chalkidiki - a Greek peninsula that stretches into the Aegean Sea between the Thermaic and Strimonic gulfs. Some 60 kilometres in length, Athos varies in width from 8-12 kilometres covering in all an area of approximately 360 square kilometres. The landward end of the promontory is low and flat, with small plains and hillocks; but as it extends seawards, clusters of peaks swell higher and higher to end finally in the bare slopes of Mount Athos, whose pyramidal summit rises sheer from the sea to more than 2000 metres.The ancients called the whole peninsula "Akte". The name Athos, a prehellenic word, was that of a Thracian giant who, according to one view, hurled that whole stony mass at Poseidon in a clash between gods and giants. In another version of the Gigantomachy, we are told that Poseidon was victorious, burying the rebellious giant Athos under the great rock. According to another legend, first recorded by Strabo and repeated by Plutarch, Deinokrates, architect to Alexander the Great, wanted to transform the whole of Mount Athos into an immense figure of the Macedonian king. [...] (From the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
From legend to historyMonasticism on Mount Athos
Mount Athos today
The government of Mount Athos
The life of the monks on Athos
Work
Food
Karyes - the Protaton
Great Lavra
The monastery of Vatopedi
The monastery of Iveron
The monastery of Chelandari
The monastery of Dionysiou
The monastery of Koutloumousiou
The monastery of Pantokrator
The monastery of Xeropotamou
The monastery of Zographou
The monastery of Docheiariou
The monastery of Karakalou
The monastery of Philotheou
The monastery of Simonopetra
The monastery of St Paul
The monastery of Stavronikita
The monastery of Xenophontos
The monastery of Gregoriou
The monastery of Esphigmenou
The monastery of St Panteleimon
The monastery of Kastamonitou
The art of Mount Athos
Architecture
Sculpture
Painting
Monumental art
Portable icons
Illuminated manuscripts
Miniature art
Vestments and gold - embroidered fabrics
Other treasures
Epilogue
Glossary
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